Karl Jaspers died in 1969, leaving unfinished his universal history of philosophy, a history organized around those philosophers who have influenced the course of human thought. The first two volumes of this work appeared in Jaspers's lifetime; the third and fourth have been culled from the vast material of his posthumous papers. This is the third volume; the fourth is to be published in 1994. In the present volume, which follows his original plan of "promoting the happiness that comes of meeting great men and sharing in their thoughts," Jaspers discusses the Metaphysicians: Xenophanes, Empedocles, Democritus, Bruno, Epicurus, Boehme, Schelling, and Leibniz. Then he turns to the Creative Orderers: Aristotle and Hegel. His method is personal, one of constant questioning and struggle, as he enters into dialogue with his "eternal contemporaries," the thinkers of the past. For Jaspers believes that it is only through communication with others that we come to ourselves and to wisdom.

The Great Philosophers: Xenophanes, Democritus, Empedocles, Bruno, Epicurus, Boehme, Schelling, Leibniz, Aristotle, Hegel (The Great Philosophers, Volume III)

Literature & Fiction

Ermarth, Michael

Ehrlich, Leonard H.

JASPERS,Karl

United States

Harcourt

Karl Jaspers died in 1969, leaving unfinished his universal history of philosophy, a history organized around those philosophers who have influenced the course of human thought. The first two volumes of this work appeared in Jasper's lifetime; the third and fourth have been gathered from the vast material of his posthumous papers. This is the fourth volume. Following his original plan of "promoting the happiness that comes of meeting great men and sharing in their thoughts," Jaspers discusses Descartes, a pious Catholic who vacillated between rational philosophy and obedience to authority. Lessing, whose thought was clear, open-ended, experimental, hones. Pascal. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Weber, who posed most penetratingly and urgently the "radical questionability of human Existenz." Marx was a dogmatic dreamer, and Einstein a great scientist, but limited in his insight into human existence. Jasper's method is personal, one of constant questioning and struggle, as he enters into dialogue iwth his "eternal contemporaries," the thinkers of the past. For he believes that it is only through communication with others that we come to ourselves and to wisdom.

The Great Philosophers: The Disturbers : Descartes Pascal Lessing Kierkegaard Nietzsche : Philosophers in Other Realms : Einstein Weber Marx

Politics & Social Sciences

Ehrlich, Edith

Philosophy

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Karl Jaspers: Basic Philosophical Writings, Selections (Series in Continental Thought)

Ohio Univ Pr

Karl Jaspers: Philosophy As Faith

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty years of meticulous research to investigate and document Vienna s Jewish community and its leadership during the Holocaust. Inescapably, this path led them to the controversial figure of Benjamin Murmelstein, Viennese rabbi and later Judenrat council elder at Theresienstadt. As a youth in Vienna during the 1930s, Leonard Ehrlich grew up knowing and respecting Murmelstein, who was the rabbi for his bar mitzvah. Ehrlich and his family would flee Vienna for the United States two months after the beginning of World War II; upon hearing post-war accounts of Murmelstein s involvement in Nazi atrocities, Ehrlich attempted to reconcile those accounts with his experience of Murmelstein as a thoughtful, devoted intellectual. Leonard Ehrlich and his wife Edith, like Leonard a Viennese refugee and doctor of philosophy, thus began an intellectual magnum opus that would seek to interrogate a number of basic assumptions of Holocaust scholarship and critical thought. The Ehrlichs would conduct painstaking historical research not only in archives but also in interviews with subjects, not the least of whom was Murmelstein himself, who had settled in Rome after the conclusion of the war. The first volume focuses on the Jewish community of Vienna during the period of 1938 to 1942. Choices under Duress of the Holocaust is most certainly a historical work, but it is also a philosophical work, in which duress and choice are considered fully in their relevant contexts. It is, then, a history of the destruction of the Jewish community of Vienna and an examination of the performance of the Jewish leadership in its dealings with the Nazis on behalf of the Jews. But it is also the positing of a question, the opening of a space to consider the nuances of consent, complicity, and condemnation.

Choices under Duress of the Holocaust: Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry, Volume I: Vienna

History

World

Texas Tech University Press

PrefaceAbbreviationsI: JASPERS ON WORLD PHILOSOPHY AND WORLD HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHYObituary by Karl Jaspers himselfK. JASPERS: World History of Philosophy, Second Volume: History of the Substantive Contents of Philosophic Thought, IntroductionII: INTRODUCTIONL.H. EHRLICH: Opening Remarks. Introduction of Jeanne Hersch, Honorary President of the ConferenceJ. HERSCH: Von der Wirkung einer 'philosophia negativa'III: LEGACY AND TASKL.H. EHRLICH: Ausblick: Vernunft, Geist, GeschichteS. HANYU: The Concept of the 'Encompassing' in World PhilosophyA. RINOFNER: Periechontologie und Weltgeschichte der Philosophie. Systematische Bemerkungen zu einem aufschlußreichen VerhältnisR. WISSER: Projekt und Vision einer 'Weltgeschichte der Philosophie' und 'Weltphilosophie' als Folgen der 'Grundverfassung' von Karl JaspersIV: DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATIONA. CESANA: Grenzen der Rationalität und KommunikationB. ONETTO-BÄCHLER: Existentielle Kommunikation bei JaspersC. PIECUCH: Es ist gleichgültig, wer die Wahrheit ausspricht. Über die Uneigennützigkeit der existentiellen KommunikationO.O. SCHRAG: Existence, Existenz, and Social OrganizationV. KATASONOV: The Gadfly, Stinging the Sluggish Horse: The Socratic Mission of Jaspers's PhilosophyV: COMMUNICATIVE WORLD HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHYA. KIEL: Die Weisen des Umgreifenden, die der Mensch ist: Wege zu Jaspers' PeriechontologieM.L. BASSO: K. Jaspers - N. Berdiaeff: une confrontation entre deux philosophies de l'histoire. Convergence et divergence d'affirmationsI. BOCKEN: Kommunikation und Mutmaßung. Versuch eines Vergleichs zwischen Jaspers' Idee einer Philosophie der Kommunikation und Nikolaus von Kues' Kunst der MutmaßungenB. ANDRZEJEWSKI: Jaspers' Stellung zur Romantik im Lichte seiner SprachphilosophieE. KISS: Karl Jaspers' Auslegung Nietzsches als eines Metaphysikers der ImmanenzD. MOYAL-SHARROCK: Genie et Folie selon JaspersM. UZELAC: The World and ExistenceP. LÓPEZ-LÓPEZ: Das Studium der Philosophie als Studium der Weltgeschichte der PhilosophieVI: COMMUNICATIVE WORLD PHILOSOPHY: EAST AND WESTW. LEE: Karl Jaspers und das Weltproblem des interreligiösen DialogsS. MARZANO: Comunicazione mondiale, kantismo e frattura dell'essere in Karl Jaspers. Una 'terza via' fra Occidente e Oriente?I. SARIN: Jaspers's Quest for Existential CommunicationM. MARUF: Jaspers and Iqbal on Self, Freedom and CommunicationS. PANYADEEP: Ich und Nicht-Ich bei Jaspers und im BuddhismusK. FUKUI: Das Wesen des Buddhismus und Jaspers' PhilosophieY. MASUBUCHI: Jaspers und Nishida. Eine Theorie des 'Topos' in der Lehre von der KommunikationH. SANER: Weltphilosophie und Globalkultur im interkulturellen Vergleich mit den Konzepten 'Weltmusik' und 'Weltkunst'G. RAUCHE: The Paradox of 'Das Scheitern' as a World FormulaVII: COMMUNICATIVE WORLD PHILOSOPHY: FREEDOM AND TOLERANCEA. MASÓ-MONCLÚS: Libertad y autoridad en Hannah Arendt y Karl JaspersO. KLEIN: 'Weltverabsolutierung' und VerantwortungsverlustK. SALAMUN: Grenzen der Toleranz. Zum Offenheits- und Toleranzparadigma in der Philosophie von Karl JaspersG. PENZO: Politik als Ethos und das Problem der Freiheit bei JaspersG. KNAUSS: Von der Weimarer Republik zur Weltpolitik. Wandlungen in Jaspers' Auffassung und Wertung der Politik von der Heidelberger Frühschrift 'Die geistige Situation der Zeit' bis zu den Basler SpätschriftenH.-J. SEIDENECK: Freiheit und Wiedervereinigung auf dem Prüfstand. Prognose und Ergebnis unter dem Blickwinkel von existentieller Kommunikation im WelthorizontAppendix

Karl Jaspers - Philosophy on the Way to "World Philosophy".Philosophie auf dem Weg zur "Weltphilosophie".(Buiten serie 0)

Wisser, Richard

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